Crisis in Ireland - calculations. #Audio365

You hear Paul O’Mahony reporting on the latest situation
“Hello and welcome to my kitchen, where I've been doing research.
As far as I found out, the UK government is doing nothing significant to reduce the cost of fuel or diesel to compensate or support the businesses that are dependent on these. That means farmers, truck drivers and private bus drivers. There seems to be general societal peace, no roadblockages, no long queues outside petrol stations - nor fuel shortages.

According to what I've been able to find out, via Internet, BBC News app, and artificial intelligence, all's well in UK.

All is not well in Ireland.
Big meeting this afternoon between government and 2 or 3 representative organisations.
Probably, some spokespersons from those blocking roads will be at the meeting - if they were members of the Irish Farmers Association or Road Hauliers 

I had conversation this morning about how much it would cost the government to peg or reduce the price of fuel down to €1.90 per litre for diesel, and €1.60 for petrol.

(Diesel is currently €2.10, petrol €1.95) -  but few can get fuel because protesters are blocking roads.

One person said the government can't do that because it would cost a billion a week (or 1 billion a month).

I went to sources, 2 artificial sources, DeepSeek sink &  ChatGPT.

According to Deep Seek, it would cost the Exchequer €80-120 million for 3 months.

Chat GPT said it would cost 300 million per year for petrol, for all diesel €275m -  €575m per year.

Both went into detail on how they did their calculations.

Chat GPT is estimating what the cost would be to the annual exchequer. The answer it comes up with is roughly €39m per year.
Correction: 

Including excise duty, cost would be between €80 - 90m a year.

ChatGPT is now offering information on a 25% reduction across the board. It says that overall -  when you include transport, farming, and home heating, you're talking nearly €2 billion a year.

Divide by 52 to to estimate how much revenue the government will lose per week. How much less investment is available for roads, hospitals, schools, social welfare, et cetera. 

Ireland has a massive stash of money in some kind of escrow account which has been collected Google, Apple foreign direct investment. There’s no doubt the money is there. However  the consequences of releasing  money from that fund, we call the Rainy Day Fund, is beyond me to calculate.

Here's the news update.

There's a big meeting this afternoon, and goodness knows what will be the outcome of it”

in relation to the protests, Road blockages, and fuel shortage in Ireland at 1 pm on 10th of April 2026.